Los Angeles Times · Los Angeles, California · 23 February 2014
CP-2014-020
The front-runners
Films from Italy, Denmark and Palestinian territories have received the most attention
Mark Olsen
Transcribed from the clipping
“‘Omar’ — PALESTINE. ‘Omar,’ directed by Hany Abu-Assad, is a dramatic thriller of shifting allegiances as a young man is coaxed into cooperating with Israeli authorities in capturing a fugitive. ‘The film is not about the conflict, it’s really about love, friendship and betrayal and about the genre thriller,’ Abu-Assad said. Nevertheless, Abu-Assad, an Oscar nominee for his 2005 film ‘Paradise Now,’ is not reluctant to give the film’s storytelling a definite point of view. ‘The movie is pro-Palestinian, and I’m not apologetic about it,’ he said. ‘If I am not pro my own people, who should I be pro? I want the freedom for my people, and I am not ashamed of that.’… ‘OMAR’ was directed by Hany Abu-Assad.”
Context added by this archive
The paper labels the country PALESTINE over the entry and Palestinian territories in the deck above it, on the same page. Seven months later an American paper filed a Palestinian screenwriter under CONFLICT for saying he was not permitted a subject other than war; here a Palestinian director says his film is not about the conflict, and the word the paper reaches for anyway is Nevertheless.
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"The front-runners," Los Angeles Times, 23 February 2014. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2014-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2014-020
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